Re: macros

2005-08-16 Thread Muddle Man
I had an iBook G3 900 for 18 months. Within that 18 months it broke THREE times. Logic board each time. It was under the video card recall the first time. The second time I had to pay the full cost of the repair (no AppleCare, $350 flat fee). The logic board died again on the 88th day of the 90 day

Re: macros

2005-08-16 Thread Aase
Hi Claire, Having used OS 9 until New Year's, I am embarrassed to admit that I never used this function (it rings familiar in my ears, so I guess I knew about it, but...)... How silly, this sounds really sensible to use, especially for "people like me", I guess - who have joint problems... I

Re: macros

2005-08-12 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 12, 2005, at 6:29 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: Automater seems to be Applescript centric; the page above talks about workflows and actions. However, I didn't see anything about assigning function keys or other keystrokes to invoke a workflow. It looks like you keep the scripts in a fo

Re: macros

2005-08-12 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
At 8:56 PM -0700 8/11/05, Fabian Fang wrote: On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Claire Hart wrote: In OS 9, I used to program my function keys to shortcut some tasks I did repetitively, mostly in AppleWorks. From what I can tell, you cannot program macros in OS X. For example, with one keystroke

Re: macros

2005-08-11 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Claire Hart wrote: In OS 9, I used to program my function keys to shortcut some tasks I did repetitively, mostly in AppleWorks. From what I can tell, you cannot program macros in OS X. For example, with one keystroke of, say, F3, I could do a return-tab, or a

Re: macros

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Dynes
From what I can tell, you cannot program macros in OS X. For example, with one keystroke of, say, F3, I could do a return-tab, or a delete-space-space, for example. I'm really needing this functionality again. I have Panther on my G4 PowerBook. I'm also going to be upgrading

macros

2005-08-11 Thread Claire Hart
In OS 9, I used to program my function keys to shortcut some tasks I did repetitively, mostly in AppleWorks. From what I can tell, you cannot program macros in OS X. For example, with one keystroke of, say, F3, I could do a return-tab, or a delete-space-space, for example. I'm r